THIS BOOK IS VERY INTERESTING, WELL WRITTEN, AND DONE WITH HONESTY. RAY'S TEAM ATTITUDE AND WORK ETHICS ARE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. HE WAS A BUTT KICKER AND A FORCE IN THE NFL. THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL FOOTBALL FANS. TO GET A REAL GOOD LOOK AT HOW FOOTBALL SHOULD BE PLAYED READ THIS. ONE HELLUVA GOOD READ.
VERY RECOMMENDED.

Ray Nitschke gives great insight into the human side of professional football. Takes readers on a great journey, from being orphaned as child, to success with the Fighting Illini, and finally to near immortal status as a member of The Green Bay Packers. Definitely not your typical pro-athlete memoirs.

Some of the particulars in the book are a bit dated, and a few of the examples tend to go on for a bit too long. That being said, this is an excellent book for anyone interested in becoming a better informed person. Mr. Garvin gives sound advice on how to bcom more 'concious' of information and how to find the right 'sort' of infomation you need. He talks authoritatively about the variety of sources available and the usefulness of each type. Despite the minor flaws, this book is worth the cost for bringing the topic together in an easy to understand manner. I'd recommend it to anyone!

This "two volumes in one" book deals with extreme opposites on the tragedy scene in Wisconsin.

"Fire" refers to the Great Peshtigo Fire of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. You may or may not have heard of it. It occurred the same night as the Great Chicago Fire. Obviously, we now know which conflagration received more press. The fact is, more people died, more property was destroyed, and a larger area was burned in the Peshtigo Fire than in Chicago.

"Ice" refers to tragedies on the Great Lakes around Wisconsin.

If you can get a copy of this book, I urge you to do so. It is well worth reading!

This book gave me a lot of wonderful information about how to live a Christian, God-centered life. While some of St. Robert's ideas seemed a little outdated in our post-Vatican II era, the overall theme of the book was very helpful.

This book is the product of international work since 1994 among close to 80 professionals from 27 countries in order to re-define and bring consensus to the issue of measuring and monitoring the status of children in our societies.
For many years many countries have gathered information and statistics about their children, but mostly in the area of basic needs and survival. This book and the international project is going beyond and looking at indicators to measure and monitor the well-being of our children. A task not easy to come about, but important, because it will provide important information, knowledge, tools for better planning and make monitoring more possible, when you have hard facts to compare with.
This book has nine chapters: Rationale for measuring child well- being, existing efforts around the world, basic guidelines, five new domains, indicators, how to measure, the community level, making of policy and summary with an agenda for future efforts in this field.
The message of the book is the importance of measurements of child well-being finding indicators that you will be able to monitor over time both improvements and change. The new approach can be described as looking at well-being instead of just survival, from negative aspects to positive aspects of child life, from well-becoming to well-being and from traditonal to new domains. The five 'new' domains the authors propose are in children's activities, children's economic resources and contribution, civic life skills, personal life skills, and safety and physical status with 49 indicators.
This is an easy-to-read book with good information for professionals trying to find ways to measure and monitor well-being in today's children and adolescents.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il

Nobiah's Well is the story of a young boy's generosity and compassion. Its theme is that the kindness you extend to others will come back to you. This book teaches children the importance of sharing. This is the story of Nobiah,a young boy who, along with his mother and baby sister, lives in a land where it has not rained for many years. Their only supply of water comes from a well that is miles away. One morning Nobiah's mother is ill, and she sends him to the well for water. On the way home, he meets several different, thirsty animals. He shares his water with them, and by the time he arrives home, there is only enough water for his mother and sister to drink. There is no water for Nobiah or the family's precious garden. His mother is furious with him, and in a fit of anger, throws the water jug, and breaks it into pieces. During the night, the animals that Nobiah has helped return for more water. When Nobiah tells them there is no water, the animals tell him to dig a well "as deep as your heart and as wide as your thirst". Nobiah begins to dig the well, but grows weary and falls asleep. The animals continue digging through the night, digging with pieces of the broken water jug. In the morning, there is a well for all the village to use. The book has beautiful illustrations that children will enjoy.

Mr. Wells has written an amusing history of my home town. Covering all of Milwaukee's recorded history and a bit of its pre-history, the book takes a look at what made Milwaukee what it is today (or at least what it was in 1970, when my edition was published)! The book has fascinating stories of th highlight of Milwaukee history, including ancient inhabitants of the area, the Bridge Wars, the Civil War, Prohibition, the 60's and everything in between. The book reads like your favorite great uncle telling stories. Some events are told in slightly teasing versions, and sometimes the details have been fleshed out to make it more interesting. And like any great uncle worth his salt, Mr. Wells includes some of the naughty details that Grandma might not appreciate being included (illegal stills, red light districts, gambling, riots), but that keep Junior asking for more. A good read.

As much as I love to read, I wasn't very convinced about this book when my dad picked it out. But I can now say it's one of the best books I have ever read. It's sad yet honest, beautifully written. I recommend this book highly.

The Well-Tempered Announcer gives experienced announcers a refresher course in pronunciation and word derivation. The inexperienced announcer will cherish this volume as a whetstone to sharpen newly aquired vocal variety and vocal tact.

Being a Ph.D.,Pharm.D., and now in medical school, I have seen a lot of texts in the realm of pharmacology. This book is really bad. The pathophysiology is weak at best and the authors apparently felt that the pharmacology (MOA's, etc.)where not worth elaborating on. They seem to have skimmed on the "pharm" part. Unfortunately this book is the textbook used at a lot of pharmacy schools... if you are a pharm student, you are much better off buying Goodman and Gillman's! It will be much more useful resource throughout your career. It will also be a better study resource for exams and seminars. If you're a med student, run for your life! This book will do nothing for you. I regret buying this book and feel it is not worth the price.

Addressing the negative comments given to this book by a Dr. Doctor who's going to become yet another doctor, if you truly have your PhD and PharmD (from a halfway decent school), you would recognize the difference between pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. It's awfully troubling if you don't. In agreement with the "triDoc", Goodman and Gillman's is the superior of the 2... in terms of PHARMACOLOGY. However, if you want a very good reference for a practical approach in the treatment options of certain disease states (i.e. PHARMACOTHERAPY), this book should be your choice. It's a wonderful and much used reference. I will agree with another reviewer in that it may be worthwhile to check into buying the hand book addition first (due to its more compact size and less cost). Pharmacotherapy versus pharmacology...Hmmmmmm.

As a pharmacy student, I found this to be an excellent reference - it covers an incredibly wide variety of topics in fantastic detail. However, the book is a little too wordy and detailed to get the overall grasp of a subject if you are covering it for the first time. But if you just need to look up that certain drug, side effect, condition or other similar information this is the book for you! There are great summary and comparison charts, easy to follow headings and a great index.